NextGen

Quality Systems, Inc. (QSI) was formed in 1973 in Irvine, California, as a dental software company. In 1994, Clinitec was formed by Pat Cline and Bryan Rosenberger to sell software for converting paper medical records into electronic medical records. Clinitec was purchased by QSI in 1996.

In 2008, NextGen Healthcare then acquired HSI of St. Louis, Missouri, and Practice Management Partners of Hunt Valley, Maryland, to expand its billing services and revenue cycle consulting division.

In 2009, NextGen Healthcare updated the name of its electronic medical record system from NextGen EMR to NextGen EHR.

In February 2010, QSI entered into an agreement to acquire Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc. and announced it would be integrated with the assets of Sphere Health Systems, Inc., which were acquired by QSI in August 2009. Both software and services companies for the inpatient market would become part of NextGen Healthcare.

ePrescribing & Medications ModuleTo help prevent interactions and errors, prescriptions are automatically checked against a patient’s medications and allergies before electronically transmitting to the pharmacy.

Image Management. Printed documents and clinical images can be captured from outside sources and imported directly into a patient’s electronic chart for a complete, accurate, and up-to-date medical record.

Referral Management. Forms are automatically populated with patient, treatment authorization data and provider information. Inbound forms can be scanned or transferred electronically into the patient record.

Reporting. During an encounter, patient data are collected and stored as discrete data, which enables your practice to easily generate reports for outcomes analysis, pay-for-performance, medication recalls, patient populations, business analysis, and more – right from the EHR.

Hosting

Client/Server (You host it)

Meaningful Use

NextGen is ONC Certified EMR for Meaningful Use

Rough Pricing

About $1,000 per month per provider (user posted)

Mobile

Nothing to really write about

Interoperability

Very poor on interoperability. Many have tried integrations and struggled. The patient portal seems to be a weak spot for Nextgen.